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{{#if:김기훈金琪焄| {{#switch: |n |north |dprk |nk=<tr><th style="background: #ccf; border-bottom: 1px solid border-top:1px solid; color:" colspan="2" align="center" width="250"> Kim Ki-hoon </th> </tr>

<tr><td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid">Hanja:</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid;">金琪焄</td></tr> <tr><td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid">McCune-Reischauer:</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid;">Kim Ki-hun</td></tr> <tr><td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid">Revised Romanization:</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid;">Gim Gi-hun</td></tr>

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Olympic medal record
Men's Short Track Speed Skating
Gold	1992 Albertville	1000m
Gold	1992 Albertville	5000m Relay
Gold	1994 Lillehammer	1000m

Kim Ki-hoon is the first gold medalist in Winter Olympics for Korea. Kim became well known when he participated in short-track demonstration event in 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, winning a gold medal in 1500m.

He is so far the only person to have swept all the gold medals available in short-track speed skating in a winter olympic games. He did this in Albertville, France, in 1992, winning 1000m final in world record time of 1 minute 30.76 seconds, and was a part of team that won 5000m relay in world record time of 7 minute 14.02 seconds. He became the first short-tracker to defend his olympic title, winning 1000m in 1994 with the time of 1 minute 34.57 seconds, at the ripe age of 27. He suffered setback in defending 5000m title, when his skate blade broke when he fell during a qualifying race.

In 2002, Kim Ki-hoon was appointed the coach of Korean national short-track team. He scouted and coached triple gold medalist Ahn Hyun Soo.